[BUGS] BUG #14566: Overriding PGDATA during initdb always fails

The following bug has been logged on the website:

Bug reference:      14566
Logged by:          Henti Smith
Email address:      henti@geekware.co.za
PostgreSQL version: 9.6.2
Operating system:   Centos 7
Description:

When using the "/usr/pgsql-9.6/bin/postgresql96-setup" script to initdb the
environment variable PGSETUP_INITDB_OPTIONS can be used to pass options to
the initdb binary. 

This allows you to do the following. 
export PGSETUP_INITDB_OPTIONS="--pgdata=/postgresql"
/usr/pgsql-9.6/bin/postgresql96-setup initdb

Internally, the following happens. 
$PGDATA is retrieved from systemctl using Environment.
$PGDATA is then used in initdb() to : 



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